Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud-Based Applications Training

SkillsFuture Course - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud-Based Applications Training 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a leading cloud-based services platform, and developers who want to keep current need to know what benefits AWS has to offer. This course will guide you how to architect your cloud-based application in AWS. The trainer will show you how to implement elasticity through Auto Scaling, decouple your application components by using message queues, and keep your system secure in the cloud. Plus, you will learn how to set up Amazon Web Services for a web applications from start-to-finish from signing up for an AWS account to autoscaling your final application architecture using load balancing, server images, and the Relational Database Service.

Topics include:

• The benefits of cloud architecture
• Core cloud-based architectural principles
• Monitoring resources and applications with CloudWatch
• Using Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Autoscaling
• Using Elastic Beanstalk
• Implementing message queues, Simple Workflow Service, and Simple Notification Services
• Setting up security groups
• Launching and connecting to an EC2 instance
• Elastic Load Balancing
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
• Using the AWS SDK

Module 1. Cloud Concepts

• Business Benefits
• Technical Benefits
• Scalable Architecture
• Understanding Elasticity
• Constraints
• Administrator Role

Module 2. Cloud Best Practices

• Design for Failures
• Implement Elasticity
• Decouple Your Components
• Security Protection

Module 3. Designing for Failures

• Virtual Servers (EC2) and Elastic IP
• Regions and Available Zones
• Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)
• Resource and Applications Monitoring (CloudWatch)
• Elastic Block Storage (EBS)
• Managing Relational Database Service (RDS)

Module 4. Implementing Elasticity 

• Understanding Bootstrapping
• Autoscaling Groups
• Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Elastic Beamstalk
• Cloud Formation and CloudFormer

Module 5. Decoupling Your Components

• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Scalable NoSQL Data Store (DynamoDB)

Module 6. Cloud Security 

• Shared Security Model
• Secure AWS Access Control with Identity and Access Management( IAM)
• Security Groups
• Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)

Module 7. Setting Up a Web Application Achitecture

• Overview of Web Application Architecture
• Signing up AWS
• Creating a new IAM user
• Creating a key pair
• Configuring a security group
• Creating an ELB
• Launching an EC2 instance
• Installing Apache, PHP 
• Connecting EC2 instance via HTTP
• Connecting to EC2 instance via SSH
• Creating a RDS database
• Creating a custom server image
• Auto Scaling

Module 8. Integrating with Other AWS Services 

• Installing SDK
• Using SDK

Wilson Tan Kwong Wei has extensive experiences in the IT industry, spanning across both application and infrastructure consulting, pre- sales, technical subject-matter-expert, evangelism and project management for enterprise clients. Proven communicator to engineers, stakeholders and CXOs. Ex-teaching assistant and instructor in National University of Singapore for Java, Microsoft solutions and programming. Also a Certified Ethical Hacker and ITIL professional.

Recently, he is a regional Business Solution Architect i.e. go-to technical person for Cloud, Microsoft, SAP, storage and data protection technologies e.g. Veritas, Commvault, Veeam solutions. Subject-matter-expert and consulting system engineer to field sales and pre-sales in winning deals. Collaborated with Technology Alliance Partners and Joint Channel Partners to develop joint solutions, building POCs and labs, executing technical enablement. Evangelized at industry events on topics around Public and Hybrid Cloud, Converged and Hyper-converged Infrastructure, Data Center Transformation, Storage for Mixed Environments, especially for Microsoft, SAP and Data Protection workloads and solutions.